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Okay my fan theory is that this will be the couple's journey towards having kids through IVF and how they overcome their contrasting personalities for a baby.
A natural extension to his love triology.
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Dharmesh Ba retweeted
The new FEMA rules have made me an exporter of services to America. Because I make videos that YouTube (an American company) pays me for, I’m considered an exporter in the eyes of the RBI. As a result, I must sign an Export Declaration Form (corroborate it with my Adsense account), sign it, stamp it, and email it to the bank. The bank then also wants a hard copy of each EDF. This is for payments as small as $100 to as large as $50,000. And I must do this every single time.
If the state is going to wear down creators, freelancers, and internet service providers like this and add nightmarish friction to the process of getting paid, it makes sense to either scale up to become a corporation (unrealistic and impossible for many) or start dealing in petty cash and cease to trade with anyone outside of India or simply pack your digital enterprise up and participate in the lala and seth ji ball-bearing economy.
Dharmesh Ba retweeted
Caste & community remain a major consideration in marriage in Tier-2 & Tier-3 India.
In our recent study, 78% of arranged-marriage respondents said caste or community was non-negotiable. Even among love-marriage respondents, it was 48%.
lokalapps.com/research
India made 32% more UPI transactions this Diwali. But the transaction value only moved 2%.
85% of festive orders were under ₹1,000 (Unicommerce).
Delhi's air hit 369 on 5 November. Amazon's air purifier sales have doubled during this period.
The more interesting detail comes from a salesperson: 'Many buyers are back for a second or third purifier. One for each bedroom.'
Purifiers and HEPA filters still carry 18% GST, even though a Parliamentary Standing Committee recommended 5%.
88% of purifier users in a survey want filters standardised, because model-specific ones run short in peak winter.
Source:
Moneycontrol: moneycontrol.com/news/busine…
The Hindu: thehindu.com/sci-tech/techno…
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.@jasonfried How much of shape up principles still hold true for building products with AI agents.
For example: Does the 8 week cycle of planning and building still needed? How do you think about it?
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Well think of the avatars like grokbots.
They share common super intelligence but they have their respective goals to finish.
Plus they are equipped with their own tools and capabilities that are tied to the goals.
Can each of them do others job? Maybe
Buy will it be effective? Not.
Ok only human can kill Ravan then Why Vishnu need to take 7th Avtar(RAM) when their 6th Avatar bhagwan parshuram already Exciting in same timeline i mean he can easily kill Ravan
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Dharmesh Ba retweeted
Chennai makkale, oru intimate, indie music show panna varuveengala? Featuring only original music? Support ethirpaakalama? 🥹❤️
Everything that @every does is so artistic.
This is their live stream page for their conference Thesis. I want them to win big in the age of AI.
every.to/tv
Sometimes life has a strange way of reminding you what matters
For the last year or so, I had surrendered myself to everything AI.
My Twitter feed was AI. My conversations with friends were AI. My work, my WhatsApp groups, and almost everything I read revolved around AI.
Everywhere I looked, someone was declaring the death of something I had once loved.
Design is dead.
Coding is dead.
Content is dead.
It felt like I was running a race I had never signed up for. Worse, nobody knew where the finish line was. I became addicted to Claude, Codex, and whatever new thing the AI overlords threw at us every week.
Learn. Unlearn. Relearn. Repeat.
My sleep cycle was a mess. Anxiety was at its peak. Uncertainty had become my default setting. My wife asked if we could plan a trip in December. I couldn't bring myself to say yes.
What if something important happened while I was away? What if I missed the next big thing? What if I fell behind?
All I could tell her was, "Let me think about it." Little did I know that life had other plans from a phone call at the middle of the night.
Through all of this, R's father was still with us.
He had helped us identify the hospital. He had stayed with my father. And he decided to remain until we completed the admission.
I didn't know how to thank him.
I kept saying the same two words.
"Thank you."
Again and again.
At one point, he said something I don't think I'll ever forget.
"My other son lives in Bangalore. If something happened to him there, I would also want someone to take care of him."
That was it. No expectation of anything in return.
Just a father imagining another father in the same situation. And deciding to help.
The things we forget
The human mind works in strange ways.
We like to believe our decisions are rational. That we know what matters. That we have our priorities sorted. But most of us are making decisions with incomplete information, hoping the dots will somehow connect when we look backwards.
For weeks, I had been anxious about falling behind.
I couldn't commit to a holiday because I was afraid of missing something important at work. I thought I needed to be in office for work to happen and yet we ran operations smoothly for a month without me being there. It was just pure trust.
I was surrounded by people online, yet I struggled to think of someone I could call at 2 AM.
And when I needed help the most, it came from a complete stranger on the internet. Just a person who was about to go to sleep, saw a stranger asking for help, and decided to show up.
I keep asking myself one question.
If I had seen a similar tweet at 3 AM, would I have responded?
Maybe.
Would I have called the person?
I'm not sure.
Would I have travelled 30 minutes to a hospital to look for someone I had never met?
Probably not.
Would I have stayed there for hours until his family arrived?
Almost certainly not.
Before this incident, I don't think I would have.
Now, I hope I will.
And sometimes, the most meaningful thing you can do for someone has nothing to do with what you know. It's simply being there.
I hope I get a chance to pay it forward.
I hope this story from the little corner of internet gives you hope. Happy Diwali.
Arranged marriages and love marriages are merging in Bharat!
A few decades back the equation was simple:
→ Arranged meant parents decided and kids obeyed.
→ Love meant kids decided - and parents either blessed it or the couple left.
but today...
Over the last few months we ran in-depth interviews and surveys across 21 cities in 8 states - to understand how families and young people actually decide on marriage in Bharat.
Today, with Lokal, we’re publishing Modern Marriage: Bharat Edition - first findings on how those two paths are merging.
lokalapps.com/modern-marriag…
Do read and share feedback :)
